Re: [Gnu-arch-users] sftp rename?

[Adam Sampson]

Brian May <address@hidden> writes:

> Why is sftp needed when there was/is already scp?

It's much more flexible than scp. SFTP essentially provides a full
network filesystem protocol, so you can hook any sort of client onto
it you want; besides the command-line "sftp" client which behaves much
like an FTP client, there's also at least one Linux filesystem that
lets you mount a remote machine using SFTP. scp only provides
equivalent functionality to rcp (so, for instance, it can't list a
directory, or change the permissions on an existing file).

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Adam Sampson <address@hidden>                        <http://offog.org/>